Why is Logcat called LogCAT [closed]

Question

I know how to use Logcat and what it is usefull for but I am wondering why Logcat is called Logcat. The log- part is obvious but the -cat part is not.

Anyone have any idea?

Answer 1

Probably after Unix utility called cat - see the manual here: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cat.1.html

The name cat is a short for concatenate, as the tool can be used to join multiple files.

The cat tool is used frequently to e.g. show a file content on standard output (console). It's even common to call this operation to cat the file. I guess that's why we have logcat - it cats the log to standard output.